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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Passes judgment on photo of embryological interest.
Cannot help with correspondent’s study. CD has a poor ear for music. Recommends Helmholtz’s work.
Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.
Thanks correspondent for the copies of his engraving. "The work seems to be, though I cannot pretend to be a judge, a vy fine production".
Orders a sheet of gold-beater’s skin for plant experiments.
Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.
Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.
Unable to accept invitation.
Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.
Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
[Provides directions for travel to Down by train.]
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
Declines offer of book on physics.